GOP lawmakers mark success by flipping rules from Obama era

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Final score: Republicans 14, Barack Obama’s last-minute regulations, one.

Congressional Republicans anxious to show voters they can get something done are hailing their reversal of more than a dozen Obama-era regulations on guns, the internet and the environment.

Over a few months, lawmakers used an obscure legislative rule to ram through changes that will have far-reaching implications for the coal industry, broadband customers, hunters and women seeking health care at Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

The deadline for scuttling the rules that Democrat Obama imposed during his final months in office was last Thursday. The 1996 Congressional Review Act had given Republicans the power to make the changes with a simple majority.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-05-14-16-26-48

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The Trump Effect




America's biggest orchards could soon use ROBOT fruit pickers

Two firms based in Washington and California are racing to use robot pickers. FFRobotics is developing a machine that has three-fingered grips to grab fruit

Harvesting Washington state's vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farm-workers, and many of them work illegally in the US. Two of the biggest orchards could soon replace the majority of these workers with robots that don't get tired and can work 24 hours a day.

FFRobotics and Abundant Robotics, of Hayward, California, are racing to get their mechanical pickers to market within the next couple of years

Harvest has long been mechanised for large portions of the agriculture industry, such as wheat, corn, green beans, tomatoes and many other crops. But for more fragile commodities like apples, berries, table grapes and lettuce - where the crop's appearance is especially important - harvest is still done by hand.

President Donald Trump's hard line against immigrants in the US illegally has many farmers in the country looking for alternative harvest methods.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...cks-apples-Replacing-humans-worries-some.html

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